High Availability Contract Job Trends in Taunton

High Availability
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring High Availability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing High Availability 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 19.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £505 - -
Somerset median daily rate £438 £625 -
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

High Availability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 6 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 86.96% 100.00% 96.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 26
10th Percentile £400 - £482
25th Percentile £431 £620 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £865 £600
Median % change year-on-year -47.98% +44.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £597 £900 £606
90th Percentile £630 - £625
Somerset median daily rate £450 £550 £494
% change year-on-year -18.18% +11.39% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £40.54 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.62% -4.23% -25.71%
75th Percentile £43.84 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -44.44%

High Availability
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing High Availability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

High Availability job vacancy trend in Taunton

High Availability
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing High Availability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing High Availability

High Availability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (88.89%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) GIS
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MSI
1 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Publishing
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Site Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Architect
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) C++ Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (11.11%) ATL
2 1 (11.11%) Blazor
2 1 (11.11%) COM
2 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
2 1 (11.11%) GeoJSON
2 1 (11.11%) MFC
2 1 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (66.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (77.78%) Incident Management
1 7 (77.78%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (77.78%) Service-Level Objective
1 7 (77.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Graceful Degradation
2 6 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 6 (66.67%) Runbook
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle